MedTech

Vijay Agarwal

Vijay Agarwal

Sonodynamic therapy, Alpheus Medical’s novel brain cancer treatment, starts with an FDA-approved drug that accumulates in cancer cells. “We’re able to bathe the whole brain with ultrasound,” explains founder Vijay
Michael Blue

Michael Blue

Cancer continues to be one of the most serious and most confounding diseases that medical science battles. Plymouth-based HistoSonics is developing a promising new weapon. It harnesses an ultrasound technology
Joe Fitzgerald

Joe Fitzgerald

With its cardiovascular business growing roughly 20% the past several years, medtech giant Boston Scientific has had to scale. Two-thirds of the Massachusetts-based company’s net sales come from that business
Jamie Sundsbak

Jamie Sundsbak

Startups participating in Mayo Clinic’s Accelerate program get access to something that many health industry entrepreneurs could only dream of: reams of anonymized patient data from Mayo. Launched in 2022,
Julie Pritchard-Hedtke

Julie Pritchard-Hedtke

“A startup helping startups” is how Julie Pritchard-Hedtke and other company leaders describe Minneapolis-based Avio Medtech Consulting. Launched in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Morgan Evans, the company provides a range
Andrea Fenton Abbs

Andrea Fenton Abbs

When medical device makers want help getting FDA approval, many turn to Bright Research. Based in downtown Minneapolis, the 55-person business designs and manages human clinical trials on behalf of